Posted 4 years ago on Feb. 12, 2014, 10:13 a.m. EST by ZenDogTroll
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from South Burlington, VT
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I've been saying the NSA program is simply going to move into the private sector - but how can we know?

How can we know?

It really isn't that difficult. Private sector surveillance that is every bit as extensive as that conducted by the NSA is and has been underway for quite some time, it takes place in your own home.

It's right in front of you

and you don't say a word. Cookies. They form the basis for the algorithms that select which ad to place on many of the web pages you visit. Advertising selected on the basis of your own behavior. TARGETED ADVERTISING. It does seem innocuous. Yet it provides a much more detailed picture of who you are than that meta data the NSA is collecting and against which we are now raising our voice.

The NSA programs designed to harvest data were written by the private sector, for the specific purpose of generating profit.

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This is not rocket science. It's just basic human fear and avarice.

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Privatized data collection is a violation of your right to privacy every bit as much as NSA data collection, and stands in similar violation to the United States Constitution. DEMAND ACTION.

"Long before MSNBC began defending mass surveillance or even before the Republican National Committee began denouncing it, the left’s favorite bogeymen saw the Patriot Act as an attack on civil liberties.

In fact, the Koch Brothers might’ve given more to repeal the Patriot Act than any other individual political campaign.

In 2008, New York Social Diary reported of the billionaire philanthropists, “(David) and his brother Charles, along with George Soros, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation each contributed $10 million to the ACLU to defeat parts of the USA Patriot Act.”

It means, you pathetic lyin' conniving piece of shit, that I have things to do. So, if you were going to be a dick then that was your time limit. After such, you will know that I am not here and (of course) it is then that you demonstrate that you have severe diarrhea of the gaping hole in your face by spewing shit.

I'm not a sadist & I'm NOT enjoying your melt-down here, so I won't be writing u another poem. Go. Be at peace. I'm not important enough to be responsible for such negative psychic energy & furious angst.

Hmmm. ''Both Move On and Rebuild the Dream have attempted in insidious ways to hitch their faltering Democratic wagons to the struggle and success of the Occupy Movement. Both have attempted to appear as supporters and organizational spokespersons for the Occupy Movement while in reality they are and always have been front organizations for the Democratic Party.'' from :

No, you got that wrong ZenDude ! I have nothing to do with Kochs or Koch-suckers and have ALWAYS differentiated between the decent, compassionate even 'liberal' Democratic Voters ... who vote Dem like they wipe their ass (ie. not a nice subject for polite conversation but WTF is the option ?) AND the B-S, Corporate Controlled & Co-opted Dem-Party-On-The-Hill !! You do get that this is actually a core OWS position, right ?!!!

''We believe elections are essential to a peaceful, just, and sustainable future, and we will continue to push for changes in our electoral system that will guarantee every human the right to vote for candidates who are not financially corrupted or filtered through gerrymandering, unreasonable ballot restrictions or corporate media gate-keeping, and to have our votes verifiably and publicly counted.''

''We believe, however, that elections alone cannot accomplish what is needed. We cannot “vote” against the disastrous influence of Wall Street or war profiteers by backing either of the two major political parties'' My emphasis & from :

Consider - philosophical and tactical differences are allowed here. That is the process and milieu from which Real Change comes. The time frame has to be beyond one, two or even three 'election cycles'.

It's ONLY been 30 months since OWS came to be ... there's lots to play for yet. The mthrfkng (& ergo necrophiliac) Kochs & The 0.01% get this better than us & so r desperate to derail The 99% Struggle.

WTF ''political process'' ffs ?!!! The one that has been pre-rigged and presented to you - for the ritualised, four yearly choice between tweedleDumb & tweedledumbeR ... THAT one, you mean ?!! Millions of good people are rejecting that faux choice as we speak and they need an alternative 99% Party .. but anyone 'tribal-voting' for D (or R) just won't be getting that too readily but Sanders and Sawant show the way !

You don't know ass from elbow or anything about me !!! Keep embarrassing yourself !! + Without even opening your link I know that that's a ten year old story about a prick BBC newsreader who is currently the 'Royal Correspondent' !

I fkn hate the prick but it is interesting that u'd think that that would somehow be an attack on me. You're such an idiot that you're off the fkn scale really. Your kittens & flowers await but for others :

Systematic government access to records held by third parties raises substantial challenges for individuals whose communications, transactions, and other activities are exposed to government scrutiny. But systematic access also creates challenges for businesses—both providers of digital services and the commercial customers of those services—that go beyond privacy concerns. These challenges include:

When access sweeps in the communications and stored data of commercial entities, trade secrets and sensitive business information may be put at risk.

The technical measures deployed on private systems and networks to support systematic access may introduce security vulnerabilities.3

Given the lack of transparency about national practices and misunderstandings about different countries' legal regimes, competition may be distorted as business customers shop for jurisdictions in which they believe their data may be less exposed to government access, and governments may use claimed disparities in laws to advantage domestic service providers

Innovation may be limited if services must be designed to ensure government access.

Lack of public trust may make individuals hesitant to use new services and new business models.

Aim but leave an area where it is wide open and that is on any little campaign or policy. It isn't that no one knows. It is that it is not addressed in it's entirely lest it take away from the over all goal. In doing so, this doesn't often accomplish the goal. It is the same for all policies changes: immigration etc.

Except that tens of thousands of other people are doing the same thing at the same time.

The resulting movements of the main character have been spastic, to say the least. Although the horde managed some success in the first few days, capturing several of those elusive Pokemon, the sheer number of people now tapping commands into Twitch's chat window is causing the game's main character, Red, to wander back and forth over the same spot, bang into walls and check his inventory with neurotic frequency.

" Do corporations have a legal right to track your car? If you think that is a purely academic question, think again. Working with groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, states are considering laws to prevent private companies from continuing to mass photograph license plates.

This is one of the backlashes to the news about mass surveillance. However, this backlash is now facing legal pushback from the corporations who take the photographs and then sell the data gleaned from the images.

In a lawsuit against the state of Utah, Digital Recognition Network, Inc. and Vigilant Solutions are attempting to appropriate the ACLU’s own pro-free speech arguments for themselves. They argue that a recent Utah law banning them from using automated cameras to collect images, locations and times of license plates is a violation of their own free speech rights. Indeed, in an interview, DRN’s counsel Michael Carvin defends this practice by noting, “Everyone has a First Amendment right to take these photographs and disseminate this information.”

He argues that a license plate is an inherently public piece of information."